Originally Posted by
hans brinker
Are you saying the spirit of the law is more important in the US than in the EU? Because if so BS...
No, but just saying that most people here don't even think about stuff like that. For example, I was in the jumpseat one evening going into ORD. The crew couldn't get a word in on the tower frequency because it was so busy. Landing was judged safer than going missed. They didn't even bother to file any paperwork.